Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
TACITUSThings are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
More Tacitus Quotes
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
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An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.
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The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
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Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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In all things there is a law of cycles.
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The powerful hold in deep remembrance an ill-timed pleasantry. [Lat., Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.]
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They make a desert and call it peace.
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Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.
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A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
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